Thursday, June 18, 2015

Five Reasons for Implementing Retail Audit Software

Simplify the process of scheduling.Traditional
scheduling is a time-consuming and burdensome process for a field team manager.
It usually involves creating a list of store visits, filling out paper forms
for field reps, or using general-purpose calendar application. Using retail audit
software you can easily organize the schedule of visits for
any period of time and improve your field team's bottom-line by reducing time
traveling to appointments, planning routes and accessing information.

Automate field reps notification of the scheduled appointments.Generally field reps receive
the appointment schedule during a visit to the office, or via an email, or a
phone call. Traveling to the office to receive tasks takes time and reduces
field reps’ productivity. After field reps receive the schedule of visits and
the list of tasks to be performed at each point-of-sale they have to find out
their routes all by themselves using a map application or a GPS-navigator.With retail audit software all the visits and tasks
are instantly displayed in tablets and smartphones of field reps due to
automatic synchronization. Field reps can view all the information about every
point-of-sale, including location, contacts, history of visits, map location.
Field reps can always optimize their day route at the click of a button to make
sure they have the shortest path between locations.

Get live retail visit confirmation.As a rule field
reps notify field team managers of the fact of arrival at a point-of-sale by a
phone call, a SMS, or marking the time of arrival in a paper report. When
implementing a retail audit software
solution field reps are being monitored on the map in real time. Field team
managers can see their routes, the arrival time, and time spent at each
point-of-sale.

Streamline data workflow while minimizing mistakes
and time taken to perform tasks.Field reps usually collect store
data completing paper forms, which are then to be transferred to the office for
manual data reentry to the corporate database. A more advanced way is filling
in a Word or an Excel form and e-mailing it to the office. Retail audit
software allows automated data entry using a tablet or a smartphone. All the
data collected at stores is automatically transferred to corporate database and
is available for integration with company’s back-end system, export or
analysis. Mobile forms allow to collect data very quickly and accurate
eliminating paperwork and minimizing mistakes.

Get custom reports based on actual retail audit
data.Nine
times out of ten field team managers try to compile the information across
paper forms or Excel spreadsheets, manually entering data to corporate
database. After data entry is finished managers often don’t have time and
enthusiasm to analyze big amount of data from all the stores. With retail audit
software all the data collected at points-of-sale is instantly available for
analysis. Use Google API and BigQuery access to your data to get ultimate
custom reports and dashboards in seconds. Apply sophisticated filters to get
the exact information you need. The reports can be easily exported to corporate
database.